Ever wonder why, in those Wild West shows and movies, the antagonist is a known criminal and yet he always has a gun anyway? The 1968 Gun Control Act is what restricts felons from owning guns. And notice how it's only the Second Amendment. People who are convicted of libel or slander don't get their First Amendment rights taken away.
In the Wild West genre, it's well understood that "an armed society is a polite society." That bartender probably has a gun behind the counter, and whenever the Marshall or gunslinger is present, although antagonistic, the villain usually behaves.
None of the gun laws that exist now are in accordance with the text, history, and tradition of the Second Amendment. Any "gun control" law needs to have a history before 1791, the year the Second Amendment was ratified. The Bruen (
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/597/20-843 ) ruling has massive potential to change things, as one goat has already posted (
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judge-throws-out-fed-law-against-guns-serial-numbers-removed ).
Although seeing a shift from anti-gun to pro 2A is encouraging, it just might never be enough.
[A] Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.
- John Adams
I'm not terribly keen on playing "their" games, but most people play by these rules, and like it or not, these rules do affect our everyday lives.